Animal Minds; how much can we learn about them? (Animals)

by David Turell , Thursday, December 17, 2015, 01:04 (3048 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: I hope that is a fair summary, and the answer to the question asked by this thread is going to be the key to future progress on the subject. Just how intelligent are the organisms from which we are all descended?-Very fair review of my thoughts. You know my thoughts about intelligence and consciousness. Humans are different in kind, not degree. Of course there is a degree of intelligence in the organisms that preceded us in evolution, and of course it increases regularly as evolution reaches the primate level. We've covered all this before.